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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1934
Page
2
Luzianne Coffee markets a new Sleepyhead awakening doll with soft washcloth body rubber hands and crying feature. The doll sells for 1.79 plus three vouchers from Luzianne coffee and arrives with slip booties and a blanket.
I. W. Allen owner of the A. W. Sandwich shop at 326 DeSiard street announced the installation of an Electro-Brew coffee maker. The machine maintains about 197 degrees, circulates water to cool 14 degrees below boiling, and uses an electric time switch for automatic contact and uniform extraction.
The sheriff's department announced a final total of 1 820 poll tax receipts for 1934 after cancellations of duplicates and processing mail payments postmarked before midnight Sunday. Last year about 10 200 receipts were issued. The piece on pipe organ history notes uncertain origins from bagpipes and Pan pipes.
Senator Nye reports evidence that European munitions makers helped craft a Geneva plan to regulate world war implements and sought aid from American manufacturers. Hull calls Hugh R. Wilson to Washington to coordinate US stance ahead of the January disarmament committee meeting.
Virginia Cherrill files for separate maintenance against Cary Grant after alleging abusive behavior and vile language. She seeks 1000 dollars monthly support and half of community property estimated at 950000. Grant reportedly earns about 5000 dollars weekly.
In New Orleans a one pound girl named Dolly Rose was born today to Ada Penton Mock, 27, who is under indictment for murder in the fatal stabbing of her husband Orrison S. Mock, 37. Police say the couple’s quarrel began when he refused to stop playing a guitar. Mrs. Mock was admitted to a hospital around midnight October 26 but released later.
Evangelist B R Lakin of Port Gay West Virginia will preach The Resurrection of Lazarus at the Immanuel Baptist church West Monroe during a revival that began Sunday and runs for several weeks. Evening services start with prayer at 6 30 and song service at 7 then the sermon hour.
John Fogarty was arrested in New Orleans for violating a new state law by disseminating race track information. He used heavy binoculars from a streetside room to view betting odds at the Fair Grounds and relayed them by telephone to handbook operators.
Advice suggests sponging fabric with lemon juice to lift fruit stains and then washing in hot water to complete removal.
An advertisement for Blue Star Ointment promises to relieve itch rash tetter ringworm or eczema with a soothing formula that soaks in quickly and kills the itch. A money back guarantee applies if the first jar fails.
New Orleans December 4 editor Robert B. Mayfield 64 died suddenly of a heart attack at his home after forty years with the paper. He joined as artist and cartoonist with the Times-Democrat in the 1890s and rose to associate editor. Surviving are his widow and two daughters Selby of New Orleans and Marcia of Wesley College Massachusetts.
The Interstate Natural Gas company receives a permit to drill a gas well named Jenny No 1 in Union parish from the Monroe office of the state conservation department. The well is planned for section 7 township 11 range 3 east.
A 32 year old Black man named Taylor Billingsly, employed by United Gas Public Service, was brought to the Clinic Tuesday with burns on his face and hands. He said the injuries occurred when a spark from a wood fire ignited escaping gas while heating pipe for bending.
A federal grand jury charged acting Captain William F Warms chief engineer Eben S Abbott Henry E Cabad executive vice president of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship company and the company itself with misconduct negligence and inattention to duties and fraud in connection with the Morro Castle fire that killed 124 people The government plans trial when a federal judge is available and notes the United States is the largest producer of sole leather.
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